What is paper-formatter?

A document-formatting tool that reshapes an academic manuscript to match a target journal, using a sample paper as the model. It works with Word and LaTeX files, in Chinese or English.

Use it to reformat titles, abstracts, headings, body text, tables, captions, and references for a journal. Provide a sample paper and your manuscript, then choose a Word or LaTeX output.

It removes the manual work of comparing margins, fonts, headings, spacing, tables, and citations with a journal’s example. This helps make a manuscript’s layout consistent before submission.

paper-formatter — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by yipng05-max

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add yipng05-max/-skills --skill paper-formatter

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yipng05-max/-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,369 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00108	$0.01369
Opus 5	$0.00054	$0.00685
Sonnet 5	$0.00022	$0.00274
Haiku 4.5	$0.00011	$0.00137

Measured 10d ago against content hash c350b8c15676, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paper-formatter scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/analyze_docx.py, scripts/format_docx.py, scripts/generate_latex.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

paper-formatter/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paper Formatter Skill

Reformat an academic manuscript to match the style of a target journal, based on a sample paper (范文).

Workflow

Step 1: Receive Inputs

Ask the user for:

Sample paper (范文): A paper from the target journal that exemplifies its formatting. Can be .docx or .tex.
User manuscript: The manuscript to reformat. Can be .docx, .tex, or plain text.
Desired output format: .docx or .tex (default: same as manuscript format).

Step 2: Analyze Sample Paper Style

If sample is .docx:

Run the analysis script:

pip install python-docx 2>/dev/null
python ~/.claude/skills/paper-formatter/scripts/analyze_docx.py "<sample.docx>" "<output_rules.json>"

This extracts:

Page layout (margins, paper size, orientation, columns)
Paragraph styles per role (title, headings, body, abstract, captions, references)
Font families, sizes, bold/italic
Line spacing, indentation, paragraph spacing
Table styles
Citation style detection (numeric, author-year, etc.)

If sample is .tex:

Read the .tex file and extract style information from the preamble:

\documentclass options (font size, paper, columns)
\usepackage{geometry} margins
Font packages and settings (fontspec, xeCJK, ctex)
\usepackage{setspace} line spacing
\titleformat / \titlesec heading styles
Citation package (natbib, biblatex) and style
\fancyhdr header/footer settings
Custom commands for title, abstract, keywords formatting

Produce a JSON style-rules object with the same structure as the docx analyzer output.

Step 3: Present Extracted Style Rules

Show the user a summary of extracted formatting rules organized by the checklist in references/formatting-elements.md:

Page: paper size, margins, orientation
Title: font, size, bold, alignment
Authors/Affiliations: format
Abstract: font, size, indentation
Keywords: separator, font
Headings: each level's font, size, bold, numbering scheme
Body: font, size, line spacing, first-line indent, alignment
Captions: position, font, size
References: citation style, bibliography format
Header/Footer: content

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

10d ago First seen · 147 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A c350b8c15676

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paper-formatter is a skill published in the GitHub repository yipng05-max/-skills (285 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,369 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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